Will Early, Mba Email & Phone Number

Kernersville, North Carolina, United States

In my role as Business Services Lead, I provide strategic leadership and mentorship to our business services team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development. Key responsibilities include:Team Development: Design and implement training programs that equip consultants with the latest industry trends and solutions, enhancing their skills to effectively address client needs.Mentorship and Coaching: Actively mentor team members, offering guidance and support to troubleshoot challenges and drive successful project outcomes.Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with educational institutions, local NCWorks Career Centers, Chambers of Commerce, and other key stakeholders across a 10-county region to build strong relationships and generate leads for our services.Consultative Services: Engage with a diverse range of employers, from small businesses to large organizations, providing tailored consultative services to resolve workforce challenges and enhance operational efficiency.Financial Oversight: Manage project budgets and funding requests, ensuring alignment with allowable costs and collaborating with the finance department to maintain fiscal responsibility, overseeing budgets ranging from $500 to $10,000 and beyond.As the subject matter expert for our services, I am committed to delivering impactful solutions that drive workforce development and support our community's economic growth.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Hire and supervise a staff of 7-10 Admission Clerks. Provide training, oversight, scheduling, and guidance.Oversee Accounts Receivable for invoices, program registrations, memberships, and other financial transactions. Responsible for daily accounting reports and cash deposits. Greensboro Aquatic Center generates over $500k in revenue annually from programs, rentals, and daily transactions.Create and update job postings for job boards (Indeed, Handshake, others). Attend job fairs at local colleges and professional organizations to fill open positions. Schedule and conduct interviews, contact candidates for new hire orientations and onboarding. Provide insight and feedback on recruiting processes. Implemented using outside job boards for recruiting purposes. Work with Greensboro Coliseum HR to provide onboarding for new hires and act as a resource for staff questions. Overhauled new hire process to reduce time to hire by 2 weeks. Handle all Recreation Management Software set up, updates, training, and resolve any questions or issues with the software design company. Lead administrator for Greensboro Aquatic Center website including updating files, postings, and designing new web pages.Lead Customer Service Specialist where responsibilities include answering phones, questions, and assisting in account creation, invoice creation, account issues, and providing customer service leadership and training to the team of Admission Clerks.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Ranked the #1 Sport Facility in North Carolina by BestinNC in 2017. Responsible for overseeing other staff on the shift and prepping the building for any events the following day. Oversee any daily programming while handling any issues with scheduling or other issues that may come up. Balance the cash deposits on a nightly basis so the manager can accurately record revenue for the city. Maintain positive customer relations and work with managers to maintain the building for future events and programming. Work with community members to host fun, exciting events.https://bestthingsnc.com/sports-centers/

2400 16Th Street Greensboro, Nc

Promoted to Shift Supervisor in November 2016. Responsible for maintaining the facility with other members of the staff and for assisting visitors on a daily basis. Maintain facility cleanliness, work behind the scenes to maintain fluidity in sports tournaments and any other events that the facility is hosting.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

As a tournament director I worked directly with both officials and coaches at volleyball tournaments. I managed 4-8 courts per tournament with 3-4 teams per court. Work efficiently to keep the tournament on schedule and also resolve any problems that may show up due to coaches, players or parents. Put all results into a spreadsheet to decide tournament winners and get ahead of potential tiebreakers. Reported results to North Carolina USA Volleyball office.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Assisted in day to day office administration tasks. Working in cohesion with many different departments of the business office in order to ensure departmental organization and to make everyone's job smoother. Worked on multiple projects to analyze potential revenue and increase efficiency of operations in multiple departments.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Coordinated volunteer and donations for the annual Cam Newton Foundation Gala event in the summer. Also participated in event management with the Kicking it with Cam! charity kickball tournament and multiple 7v7 high school football events.Solicited donations, coordinated volunteers, setup venues, attended events to assist foundation director and ensure that the patrons and guests had a great experience. I had the opportunity to interact with corporate leaders and professional athletes. Responsible to record silent auction items and buyers, ensuring that each item was received by the right donor.

University At North Carolina At Greensboro

Received a $1500 grant for a personal research project with virtual reality. As a lab worker, I was on projects and collecting data as preliminary research. I created a video with exercises on ankle strengthening for the Marine Corps and was requested for a subsequent video as well. It's purpose is to help prevent ankle sprains in military personnel. I have also been on projects researching gait and if people retain gait patterns if they have been given the stimulus.

Provided a fun working environment and quick and quality customer service through finding needed clothing items, cash register sales and any other needs. Positive customer relations.

Provided a safe and fun environment for children of all ages to experience camp and being outdoors for a week. Lead group activities and games, camp songs, and provided the children with basic first aid.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Graduate

Activities and Societies: Bryan School of Business and Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Kinesiology And Exercise Science

Activities and Societies: Intervarsity VEAR Lab AssistantGraduated in May 2015 with a Kinesiology degree and a Sport Coaching Minor.